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Proceedings of the 13th international software product line conference
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Year: 2009 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Carnegie Mellon University,

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The journal of privacy and confidentiality.
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ISSN: 25758527 Year: 2009 Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : Ithaca, NY : Carnegie Mellon CyLab, Labor Dynamics Institute


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A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
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ISBN: 9780300149654 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press


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A reader's guide to Nabokov's "Lolita"
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ISBN: 1618110063 1934843660 9781618110060 1306430887 9781306430883 9781618117052 161811705X 9781934843659 1934843652 9781934843666 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's "Lolita" carries readers through the intricacies of Nabokov's work and helps them achieve a better understanding of his rich artistic design. The book opens with a detailed chronology of Nabokov's life and literary career. Chapters include an analysis of the novel, a discussion of its precursors in Nabokov's work and in world literature, an essay on the character of Dolly Haze (Humbert's "Lolita"), and a commentary on the critical and cultural afterlife of the novel. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of selected critical reading. The guide should prove illuminating both for first-time readers of Lolita and for experienced re-readers of Nabokov's classic work.


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The superstitious muse : thinking Russian literature mythopoetically
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ISBN: 1618110128 1618116789 9781618110121 9781618116789 1934843172 9781934843178 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of "erasure" and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. The lichnost' (personhood, psychic totality) of the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different planes of being. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad).This sort of metempsychosis, where the stories that constitute the Ur-texts of Russian literature are constantly reworked in the biographical myths shaping individual writers' lives, is Bethea's primary focus. This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.


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Language and culture in eighteenth-century Russia
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ISBN: 1618111302 1618116738 9781618111302 9781618116734 9781934843123 1934843121 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and this title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the late seventeenth century through the debates between "archaists and innovators" of the early nineteenth century. Zhivov's study is an essential work on the genesis of modern Russian culture; the aim of this translation is to make it available to historians and students of the field.


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A companion to Andrei Platonov's the foundation pit
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ISBN: 1618110012 1934843571 9781618110015 9781618116970 1618116975 1934843083 9781934843086 9781934843574 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.

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